Natural language utterances are, in general, highly ambiguous, and a unique interpretation
can usually be determined only by taking into account the constraining influence of the …

Question Answering Systems (QASs) have emerged as a good alternative for information
seekers to retrieve precise information over the Internet. A good amount of research has …

Ontology evolution aims at maintaining an ontology up to date with respect to changes in the
domain that it models or novel requirements of information systems that it enables. The …

Non-compositional expressions present a special challenge to NLP applications. We
present a method for automatic identification of non-compositional expressions using their …

Most previous corpus-based algorithms disambiguate a word with a classifier trained from
previous usages of the same word. Separate classifiers have to be trained for different …

Senseval was the first open, community-based evaluation exercisefor Word Sense
Disambiguation programs. It adopted the quantitativeapproach to evaluation developed in …

As a lexical knowledge base constructed automatically from the definitions and example
sentences in two machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs), MindNet embodies several …

This paper proposes an efficient example sampling method for example-based word sense
disambiguation systems. To construct a database of practical size, a considerable overhead …

摘要词义相似度计算在很多领域中都有广泛的应用, 例如信息检索, 信息抽取, 文本分类,
词义排歧, 基于实例的机器翻译等等. 词义相似度计算的两种基本方法是基于世界知识(Ontology …

Selecting the most appropriate sense for an ambiguous word in a sentence is a central
problem in Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we present a method that attempts …